You usually do that? How poor.
Indeed, how poor of the players to bitch. It is quite selfish for people to want to play at full speed when you are facing war with 4 nations or more, which means countless fronts to cover, PLUS very important oversea attacks.
Countless fronts to cover, and oversea attacks mean countless army/navy splits. Try to split a navy of 2000 ships into a few navies of 120 ships each in the middle of a war and THEN tell me how it went.
Not to speak about the many army-pursuits. You usually have to split the army as well, or you will reach the target province AFTER your enemy, which might give him the upper hand if he has crossed a river. And this kind of splits REQUIRE pause, or you will simply reach the province only after your enemy.
AND the goddamn rebels. One of the things you CANNOT neglect during a war. For a local power, hardly a nuisance - for someone with more then 100 provinces - a death sentence.
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I still remember when i subbed HAL's decadent spain once - against a pretty decent england. Spain had godlike inflation and was far behind in the tech race - still i managed to keep +60 warscore for the entire war, against a stronger england with leaders such as marlborough.
How? With countless oversea sneaky attacks (and i paused so many times to split navies and all, that i still remember HOG complaining about the issue). When a player overstreches himself, its inevitable for the same player to develop weaknesses. Biggest problem was that i had to keep sending men into north america to fight against england and i often had to divide the fleet and keep an eye on the atlantic. Could have mustered men in America instead, but i could easily carry about 80k men from iberia instead, in a faster way.
Still wondering why i wasted my time subbing HAL though, but that is another story.
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And of course, i didnt even speak about merchants, colonists, and the other usual crappy stuff that takes place in a normal game. These things only add to the amount of stuff that you have to do in the middle of a war, although you can neglect them... for a while. Neglect them for too long and you will see some bastard with monopolies on your COTs, and your MI drastically lower then ever.
